Details

Subject(s)

• Greek anthology [Browse]
• Greek poetry [Browse]

Former owner

• Skuasos, Bartholomaios [Browse]
• Mitford, John, 1781-1859 [Browse]
• Bateman, Thomas, 1821-1861 [Browse]

Binder

• Middleton, Bernard C., 1924- [Browse]

Editor

• Lascaris, Janus, 1445?-1535 [Browse]

Dedicatee

• Medici, Piero di Lorenzo de', 1472-1503 [Browse]

Printer

• Alopa, Lorenzo di Francesco de, active 1484-1505 [Browse]

Notes

• Title from incipit of table of contents on leaf [A1] verso.
• Imprint from colophon on leaf [LL7] verso.
• Edited by Janus Lascaris.
• Variants are known with titles and capitals masked during printing for adding by hand in presentation copies: cf. BN cat. des incun., A-410.
• Space left blank for initials at beginning of each section.
• Signatures: A-Ō⁸ AA-KK⁸ [LL]⁸. First leaf [A1] unsigned; last leaf [LL8] unsigned and blank.
• WHS copy: First edition of the Planudean Anthology, first issue, complete with Lascaris' verse epilogue and dedication addressed to Piero de' Medici as the final quire, which is often missing (cf. BM 15th cent., VI, 666). This was suppressed from the second issue, no doubt because of Piero's proscription and flight from Florence in 1494. An early owner has added other Greek poems in elegiac verse - not in the Anthologia - and prose.

Binding note

• WHS copy: With 4-line illuminated initial with classical motif opening the text, other initial spaces blank. Foliated in a contemporary Italian hand. (Some marginal wormtracks, occasional spotting and staining, heavier at end.) Bound in 19th-century English green hard-grained morocco gilt, marbled endpapers, gilt edges.
• Ex copy: Bound in stiff vellum in 1985 by Bernard MIddleton, title inked to spine, yapp edges, edges red.

Contents

Title and table of contents, [A1]v; Anthologia Graeca Planudea, edited by Janus Lascaris, A2r-KK8v; Janus Lascaris. [Verse], [LL1]r; Janus Lascaris. [Dedication letter] to Piero de' Medici, [LL1]v-[LL7]v; colophon, [LL7]v.

Provenance

• WHS copy: Extensive contemporary Greek annotations, mostly marginal and on blank leaves -- Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872; sold Sotheby's 28 November 1977, lot 5251) -- André Himpe (De Gulden Passer 2003, no. 8) -- Christie's (London), 23 Nov. 2010, lot 40.
• Ex copy: Extensively annotated throughout in two sixteenth century hands, with an interlinear Latin translation and many marginal notes in Latin and Greek giving Latin renderings of the text, explanations of Greek words, and summaries of sense. Provenance: The name "Bartholomaios Skuasos" appears in faint Greek letters at the foot of the first page. From the library of John Mitford (1781-1859), with his signature, "J. Mitford 1816", and extensive notes to the front free endpaper. Nineteenth-century bookplate of the Bateman family of Middleton Hall [i.e. Thomas Bateman?].

References

• BM 15th cent., VI, 666
• BN cat. des incun., A-410
• Bod-inc, A-308
• BSB-Ink, A-557
• Goff, A765
• GW, 2048
• Hain-Copinger, 1145*
• ISTC, ia00765000
• Oates, 2437, 2438

Place name(s)

Italy, Florence.

OCLC

648940022

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